A high-profile state television presenter who launched an online tirade against "foreign trash" has sought to temper his words after calls for overseas guests to boycott his show.
In the diatribe by Yang Rui, published onthe popular Sina Weibo service, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, he described a recently expelled journalist as a "foreign bitch" and praised police for "clearing out foreign trash".
The attack by the host of the English language programme Dialogue, which says it seeks to promote cross-cultural debate, was initially viewed by some commentators as an attempt at satire. His programme is shown on CCTV-9, the channel regarded as part of China's soft power drive to present a more humane face to the outside world.
Melissa Chan, the al-Jazeera journalist expelled from China earlier this month, was described as a "foreign bitch" in remarks by Yang. They followed an announcement by Beijing police of a 100-day crackdown on foreigners illegally living or working in the city and controversy over the behaviour of foreigners in China, including a man – said to be British – who was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a Chinese woman. Full story...
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In the diatribe by Yang Rui, published onthe popular Sina Weibo service, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, he described a recently expelled journalist as a "foreign bitch" and praised police for "clearing out foreign trash".
The attack by the host of the English language programme Dialogue, which says it seeks to promote cross-cultural debate, was initially viewed by some commentators as an attempt at satire. His programme is shown on CCTV-9, the channel regarded as part of China's soft power drive to present a more humane face to the outside world.
Melissa Chan, the al-Jazeera journalist expelled from China earlier this month, was described as a "foreign bitch" in remarks by Yang. They followed an announcement by Beijing police of a 100-day crackdown on foreigners illegally living or working in the city and controversy over the behaviour of foreigners in China, including a man – said to be British – who was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a Chinese woman. Full story...
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